I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible as J.J. Abrams is.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.
I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.
All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
The more tools we have directors and cinematographers will be able to express more and create different worlds and feelings. It's like having more instruments in an orchestra.
And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.
In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.
Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.
As I started to develop as a director, I wanted to do projects that were inherently more cinematic, where the freight was not so much in the dialogue, where it would be carried more by the camera.
All I can say is working with Ridley Scott is a dream come true.